Pardon my excitement but....
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Photo Credit: Forest and Kim Starr...my sugar snap peas are coming in! So
is my kale! Carrots coming in as well!
And so are a bunch of gray hairs on my hea...

5 months ago

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Keeping things in perspective

By Nancy Shuman

Cross with Ladder in Perspective by Lautensack(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

The following is something I have a hard time describing, but I find it important enough that I'm going to give it a try.

I
think we're made to look for the time when things are stable and
settled, but we set our sights too short. Heaven is where our gaze
(even now) is to be directed.

I compare it to the "vanishing point" I did projects on in Art school.
In a study of perspective, the vanishing point is that place on the
horizon where what one sees, in effect, vanishes. It's a central point,
sometimes illustrated by a single little dot. It is that spot to which
all things are directed. Everything in the picture is geared toward
that point. Streets, roofs, windows, roads can then be lined up as the
eye sees them: wider when they're closer to the viewer, and narrower
toward the horizon. the picture is only correct, nicely proportioned,
and logical if the artist takes into account the vanishing point. In a
basic perspective lesson, the student is taught to project the vanishing
point and then to practice by using rulers until all things in the
picture line up correctly with that one central spot.Continue reading at Nancy's blogThe Breadbox Letters.